Average NFL career is 3.5 years. An injury can end or significantly shorten a player’s career. Surgery can also dramatically limit a player’s career. Surgery all too often paints a patient into a corner form which they can not successfully rebound given the significant rehabilitation, down time, alternation of simple mechanics of the joint.

Washington Redskins safety LaRon Landry suffered an Achilles tendon injury and has taken a similar path. After undergoing team recommended PRP and shock wave therapy Landry failed to fully recover. The team instructed him that” the best thing for me was to get open up and fully cut my Achilles and that’s a tough surgery as it takes a year and a half to heal”. He rejected the extensive surgery and Redskins elected not to resign the defensive safety. Ortho 2.0 discusses the importance of looking a stability, alignment and neurological function in treating an injury.